Chapter 18 - Verse 65 — Ancient Knowledge

मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु ।
मामेवैष्यसि सत्यं ते प्रतिजाने प्रियोऽसि मे ॥ ६५ ॥

manmanā bhava madbhakto madyājī māṃ namaskuru .
māmevaiṣyasi satyaṃ te pratijāne priyo’si me .. 65 ..

Fix thy thought on Me, be devoted to Me, worship Me, do homage to Me. Thou shalt reach Myself. The truth do I declare to thee; (for) thou art dear to Me.

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Thou shalt reach Myself: thus acting—i.e., looking up to Vāsudeva alone as thy aim, means, and end—thou shalt come to Me. In this matter I make a solemn promise.—The meaning of the verse is this. Thus, knowing that the Lord’s declarations are true, and being convinced that moksha is a necessary result of devotion to the Lord, one should look to the Lord as the highest and sole Refuge.

Right Knowledge and Renunciation.

Having thought in conclusion that the supreme secret of the Devotion of Karma-Yoga is the regarding of the Lord as the sole Refuge, the Lord now proceeds to speak of the Right Knowledge, the fruit of the Devotion of Karma-Yoga, as taught in the essential portions of all the Vedāntas (Upaniṣads):